Reporter-News photo by Thomas Metthe Colin Kirkpatrick, center, was granted a wish from the Make-A-Wish Foundation that will send him to next season's NBA All-Star Game in February 2009 in Phoenix.

Reporter-News Photo by Ronald W. Erdrich Jaime Lopez, a cook at Mary's Mexican Restaurant, places two lunches in the kitchen window for a waitress to pick up Friday.

REPORTER-NEWS Photo by Victor Cristales The Rev. Andrew Penns reads a dedication to be inscribed on a Texas Historical Marker honoring Eugenia Pickard at the Woodson Center for Excellence in Abilene on Friday.